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Carlos Scheidegger (@cscheid.net; 2/0/0; 2026-01-23): I like to think our ergonomics are much better, but Quarto’s lineage is pretty directly from weave (knuth) to sweave (S, the precursor of R) to knitr (in R) to rmarkdown to quarto
And no, none of these words are in the Bible ↪
Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 1/0/1; 2026-01-20): knitr by Yihui Xie
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#knitr ↪
tj mahr 🤘 (@tjmahr.com; 0/0/0; 2026-01-20): fwiw i autoconverted to the quarto chunk option style with
filepath |> knitr::convert_chunk_header(type = “yaml”) |> writeClipboard()
pasting over it ↪
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Solomon Kurz (@solomonkurz.bsky.social; 114/3/32; 2026-01-14): The 0.5.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of McElreath’s “Statistical Rethinking” (2nd ed) is up!
solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/
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#rstats ↪
Georgios Karamanis (@karaman.is; 52/2/3; 2026-01-18): Africa has over 2 000 languages. For this week’s #TidyTuesday, I tried to visualize this extraordinary diversity with a treemap and a geofaceted map
Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t…
#RStats #dataviz ↪
terence (@tterence.bsky.social; 46/2/7; 2026-01-15): Peaks of Japan.
#ggplot2 adventures, an #rstats tale ↪
Morgan Gray (@morgangray.bsky.social; 43/3/17; 2026-01-15): This book is a {gt} treasure trove!
rich-iannone.github.io/gt-effective…
Written by @richmeister.bsky.social, and shoutout to @libbyheeren.bsky.social for telling me about it.
#RStats ↪
Henrik Bengtsson (@henrikbengtsson.bsky.social; 37/0/1; 2026-01-14): R is a truly beautiful language! ✨
#RStats #futureverse #StayTuned ↪
Sharon Machlis (@smachlis.bsky.social; 33/5/4; 2026-01-15): I FINALLY added the air #RStats formatter in Positron so it formats each time I save - and it is magical. Fixes indents! Puts things on the correct lines!
Info: positron.posit.co/guide-r-air…. ↪
Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 32/0/4; 2026-01-15): Did you know there’s a {gt} book in the works?! Because there IS! #rstats #databs #gt ↪
Posit (@posit.co; 31/0/13; 2026-01-15): Speak at posit::conf(2026) and share your R & Python stories!
Accepted speakers get:
✨ Travel & lodging help
✨ Free conference pass
✨ Professional coaching
Apply by Feb 6 to join us Sept 14-16 in Houston, TX!
Submit here: pos.it/conf-talk-2026
#positconf2026 #rstats #pydata ↪
terence (@tterence.bsky.social; 26/0/9; 2026-01-17): Nine volcanoes of Japan. Mt. Fuji is instantly recognisable. The others too, I hope.
This took a while to get right. Looks like fancy chocolates, no? Or little LED buttons.
#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale ↪
Brian O’Meara (@omearabrian.bsky.social; 24/0/17; 2026-01-17): Visit days where potential grad student admits are brought to campus are starting soon. I have some info on what to expect at applyingtoeeb.info
For those making schedules for such events, I have an #rstats package for that; sample fn: bomeara.github.io/scheduleR/re…
🧪 #AcademicSky ↪
Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 24/2/6; 2026-01-16): DID YOU MISS the very first #DataScienceLab when @isabelizimm.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social joined us to talk about some of our favorite #Positron settings? Some folks had asked so I wanted to share!
It’s up on YouTube here: youtu.be/QIYyeuZ_ISY
#rstats #python #databs #pydata ↪
**** (@dr-iggs.bsky.social; 21/0/2; 2026-01-16): Prompt: “Order and Disorder” I love pointing my vision at a specific area and watching the grid slowly form as I move my eyes. Made in R for #genuary2026 #genuary16 #genuary #rstats #ggplot #noai ↪
terence (@tterence.bsky.social; 17/1/3; 2026-01-17): Top 10 peaks of the United States, by which I mean Alaska, because all of them are in Alaska.
#ggplot2 adventures, an #rstats tale ↪
Kyle Walker (@kylewalker.bsky.social; 15/0/1; 2026-01-16): A great use-case for Nano Banana Pro: creating #rstats hex logos.
It used to take me hours to put these logos together (I’m not a graphic designer), but logos really help with branding R packages.
With Nano Banana I feed Gemini the package spec, iterate, and get great results. ↪
Lorenzo Fabbri, Ph.D. (@epilorenzo.bsky.social; 14/2/2; 2026-01-15): 🚨Finally on #CRAN!!
🔗 cran.r-project.org/web/packages…
#rstats ↪
terence (@tterence.bsky.social; 12/3/3; 2026-01-16): Not sure what happened here but I like it!
#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale ↪
The R Data Scientist (@rstats.blaze.email; 12/0/3; 2026-01-17): Announcing {typeR}: simulate live typing of R scripts
https://federicagazzelloni.com/content/rpackages/posts/typeR/
#rstats #datascience ↪
Nick Eagles (@nick-eagles.bsky.social; 10/0/4; 2026-01-16): Lots has evolved since these R Stats sessions @libdrstats.bsky.social, but we touch on the hot topic of integrating LLMs into data science, mostly with Github Copilot, in a couple sessions–
Introductory look: youtu.be/xuCQZ5_5KB0
Reusable prompts: youtu.be/mlMl81xRI_M
#RStats #LLMs ↪
**** (@dr-iggs.bsky.social; 9/0/2; 2026-01-18): Here’s a single line that chooses its next angle based on the next digit of pi! I never thought it would trace an island palm tree; or maybe it’s a leg?
Today’s Prompt: Unexpected Path.
Made with #rstats #ggplot for #genuary18 #genuary #genuary2026 #noai ↪
Stephen Turner (@stephenturner.us; 7/1/1; 2026-01-16): New book: Generative AI in R link.springer.com/book/10.1007…. I’ve never heard of the authors before. If anyone’s library has access I’d love the PDF. My email address is easy to find. #Rstats ↪
yihui.org
The R Data Scientist (@rstats.blaze.email; 5/0/1; 2026-01-24): Hello World! I’m Back to Blogging!
https://yihui.org/en/2026/01/hello-world/
#rstats #datascience ↪